Good day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners.

Good to speak to you again.

Letters from listeners.

Yes, and actually we're going to extend that if it's okay with you and go back to more letters next week.

We get a lot of great letters,

including sometimes handwritten letters,

and it's fun from time to time to devote an entire program

to the kind of listener mail we get.

And important.

We were admonished a month or two ago for not doing enough of this.

Really?

Yeah, somebody said, you haven't done listener questions in a long time?

And I wrote him back, said, sorry, we've been really busy and and he wrote back saying well work harder

Well, that's true. Yeah, so we have the usual eight minute digression on gardening

and the beginning of the show. It isn't quite that long and it's important.

But it's great because you haven't been admonished for

garden talk ever since Pat Bertowski was on.

Wow, because we brought in a professional.

That's right.

But now your garden is planted. It is. You're completely in. No, I'm

I'm waiting for a little bit warmer weather to put my tomatoes in but I have I have

about 70 or 80 tomato plants in my house a number of which are going to you.

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